LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Best Dressed
Tommy Taylor aged 85 in April has been a member of the Gravesend branch ] committee for over 25 years and box secretary for over 10 years.
This picture was taken at a film night, given by John Gamble, RNLI organiser for... - View image in PDF
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Yvonne Risager
TWO HOUR WAIT BEFORE ENTERING HARBOUR Dunbar, East Lothian. At. 6.15 on the evening of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the coastguard that the life-boat coxswain had been told by the skipper of...
Life-Boat Christmas Cards and Calendars
LIFE-BOAT CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS FOUR attractive and interesting life-boat Christmas cards are available this year.
A.—A card bearing an illustration reproduced from a painting by Stewart Henry Bell, hanging at Head...
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Coxswain David Gallichan of Beaumaris In Anglesey
Coxswain David Gallichan of Beaumaris in Anglesey joined the lifeboat crew in 1957 and became second coxswain in 1974 before being appointed coxswain in 1980. He was awarded a bronze medal in 1981 for saving the crew of a fishing vessel in a... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Canberra
Routine - but always appreciatedFalmouth's Arun class lifeboat Elizabeth Ann carried out a service on 3 June 1992 which although in fine weather and described by the station honorary secretary as 'routine' led to words of praise...
Upernavik, of Esbjerg
On 5th December, 1970, m.f.v. Upernavik of Esbjerg with five people on board went ashore at Bressay. The Lerwick, Shetland, life-boat Southern Africa on temporary duty at the station slipped her moorings at 1.2. There was a westerly gale...
Woolwich Infant
At 9.30 A.M. on the 4th April, during a moderate E.N.E. gale and rough sea, the ketch Woolwich Infant, of Falmouth, parted her cable and drifted rapidly towards the Cowloe Rocks. A signal of distress was hoisted, and in response the...
The Celeste
At daybreak on the 4th April, during a strong gale from the E., with a chopping sea, a large steamer was observed, apparently at anchor, about eight miles N. of To wan Head. She was showing colours, but whether signals of distress or not...
Friends of Killyleigh
During the afternoon of the 26th February, the Life-boat Tyretta, in answer to signals of distress, was launched to the assistance of the schooner Friends, of Killyleigh, which vessel having had all her sails blown away while on a voyage...
Martell Cognac
MARTELL The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in...
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